and it begins

I can't believe I'm finally here, after 5 years of waiting. Holy shit.

Thank you, everybody, for your amazing comments on my last post - I've been meaning to respond to each of you individually and just haven't gotten there yet but I will over the next few days. So much good energy and good advice from all of you - I can't thank you enough.

I haven't been super meticulous about keeping this blog a secret from people in real life, and Manny and I have decided we want to keep everything just between us right now (well, between us and you darling internets), so I'm going to go password protected for a while - maybe forever, and I've been thinking of moving this blog over to wordpress or somewhere I can password protect only certain posts. But I'm not sure about that yet - I'll keep you posted. So please email me at annarchyinjapan at yahoo dot com (it's in my profile, too) for an invite.